Re: Can no longer login as user.

["Anthony P. Roberts" <apr phoenix Princeton EDU>]

On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Bruce F. Harrison wrote:

> I am having can no longer login as myself, only as root.  No other
> logins are working either, although they are all in the system.
> I have encountered this before when trying to automatically start X from
> level 5.  My solution was to reinstall.  This has now become my last
> choice - I just don't know what my first one should be.

Look for an empty file called nologin in /etc (? - I forget the exact
location) and delete it. Apparently its created during a root shutdown
procedure to stop users logging in, no idea when mine was created,
but it caused a real pain for some time.

Tony